'Pray for Roslyn': Hapless IT worker is 'out of the office' after she crashes NHS servers by sending test email to ENTIRE 1.2million workforce - who then make it worse by hitting 'reply to all'

A hapless IT worker who crashed the NHS email server after she sent a 'test' message to 1.2million people has gone to ground today.
Roslyn Learmond, from Croydon, south London, had an extraordinarily bad day at work yesterday when a message meant for local GP practices went to everyone in the health service.
Her email, sent at 9.01am yesterday, was blank apart from 'test' in the subject line - and the problems it caused was then compounded when confused workers hit ‘reply all’ asking to be taken off the mailing list.
One worker estimated that more than 180million ‘needless’ messages were... read more

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